bombs detonated were six liter liter pressure cookers. cook they were placed on black duffle duffle bags and left sitting on the ground. doctors removed sharp metallic meta objects from the lowerr extremities of the victims. victims. >> many of them have severee wounds, mostly in the lower part part of their bodies, wounds relatedwou to the blast effect of the bomb mb as well as small metallic fragments. >> reporter: the two bombs exploded about 12 seconds apartapart, the first near the finish line where 8-year-old martin richard was there to cheer on hiss father. the little boy was killed in the the blast when he ran back to his mother and two siblings. bill richards issued a statement. we thank our family and friends those we know and those we have have never met.r met. i ask that you continue to pray for our family as we remember martin. the white house called the attack an act of terror.

meanwhile, did you have patrick says that no unexploded bombsun were found. >> it's important to clarify clar that two and only two explosive devices were found yesterday. yest all other parcels in the area of area the blast have been examined, exam but there are no unexploded bombs. >> reporter: it's believed atelieveat this point in the investigation inve the bombs were placed near the the finish line well after the race began, and after the second security sweep. swee craig boswell fox news. today we're hearning morern aboutin thehearn --learning more about theth 8-year-old boy who was killed. kill he was a vie vaish yous boy who o loved to walk and run. ru they were at the marathon to to watch friends running in the leg. his sister lost a leg in the e blast and his mother is hurt, hurt and his father was not hurt. hurt victims who ran the boston bo marathon are back home tonight.toght. john harn hahn henrehan, and joins

us from us f the newsroom. >> reporter: we staked out out several of the flights and we did find returning marathoners ma who told us their stories. storie the most compelling story came from the wall family. fa this year, his wife cindy and his daughter katie were in the race. john wall was sitting across theacross th street from the first bomb blast during the evacuation. he had the presence of mind to to turn on the video record ore hisrd ore hi cell phone.phone. >> and when that second one wentne went off, i thought god, we are we are going to die here. here. you know, this is a bunch of explosions, this isn't just onejust one and where is the next one. next and are we on it? it? and we got to get off of these stands. >> get out of the stands.e st get out of the stands. stan don't run just stay with me. me.

turn to the right, turn to the right. >> move. >> turn to the right.n turn to thtoe right. >> this way. way. my god. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: we're showing we'r you that raw video because it really captured the extreme panic that was going on amongn a people across the streets.reets. the other part of the walsh family story the wife and wife a daughter who were still runningeril in the race when the blast went went off, once they learned that that there were bombs at the finish finish line, they were terrified that that the husband had been killed. ki we will hear their story at the the news edge.ge. >> the panic is really mr. wall kept his wits about him. >> reporter: he was extremely concerned about the developmentally disabled girled girl that was with him.him. his sister-in-law runs a charity char for people that are in need in need the massachusetts.massachuset

that is why he kept saying go to the right go to the right het, didn't want to the group to get separated. >> john henrehan bringing us more incredible images from the boston marathon yesterday.day. social media went into overdrive when news of the bombing broke. members hit twitter but but unfortunately in this day of instant information, all of the facts aren't necessarily correct. washington post eric joins us today. you wrote a blog about this sortsort of instant impact information twitter and the abundance ofabunda people who were asking people tople to use a little bit of caution andcaution an not to speculate out there. we pulled it up there and there d t were a number of different tweets that you posted in your blog, why did this stand out toto you? >> it seemed that twitter is developing a crowd of people who who are urging, or sort of a yellow light and red light.li we have seen your excesses, wees have seen how wrong you can be. be

slow down a little bit, confirm things we want to see careful reporting, not speculation.spec we don't want to have to rethink everything because it's reported. >> you sort of took a contrast between that and the new town connecticut shooting explain that to our viewers. >> the new town connecticutut shootings, there were a lot of real bad information right away, whether adam lanza's mother worked at the school, whether he was bud into the school, and whether ryan lanza his brother may have done it. there were a lot of things thatgs were dead on wrong. wron twitter helped to propagatete this by retwitting. when you use twitter, it goest goes like a virus. >> sometimes twitter is so useful, do you think that it's becoming a hinder answerance when it comes to reporting facts. fact

>> twit certify a medium and it's -- twitter is a media ask medi it's only as reliable as the as the people who use it.se it. people are learning not to pay pay attention to people who don't don't source, and people they don't know. it's a good place where it cane be established by organizations orga that have a load good record. just the way you wouldn't blame blame paper for of misreporting of theeporting of newspaper, you shouldn't blame blame twitter, the medium for mistakes mistak that happened in the modern times. >> we have you here, how did we do yesterday? >> fine. >> thanks for coming in today.toda >> my pleasure, thanks for having me. >> will. boston to logan airport isis on heightened state of alert today. a couple of flights affected. i u.s. airways plane was was stopped, the tsa say authorities author were inspected one of the bags that were not searched at at philadelphia airport..

sources tell fox boston an an american airlines flight headed to chicago was returned to the gate and two men speaking arabic caused concern among the passengers on the flight. on the flight here at washington d.c. security securi measures have been ramped up up after the boston explosion.expl today marks the anniversary of the emancipation day. da a large celebration including a parade that brought out thousands of people andand authorities are keeping a close ose eye on that event as you can can imagine. matt at freedom plaza with morewithore on that. matt. >> reporter: understand plea, unde a lostrstand folks who came out here to enjoy this event today were feeling uneasy.g uneasy. the reason why, there weree thousands of people at free dam plaza at one point. people are uneasey of being in being crowds and another told us they were not let what let happened in boston to concernern them one bit. the mayor and police chief chief decided this was a big event andt

and they wanted to have extra security in place today.ty >> reporter: as ithen 101st anniversary of emancipation day is sell celebrated in the district, dist it's hard for some to forget those who lost so much in boston boston yesterday. >> the event itself is tragic. tr it's horrible to have three three people killed and i don't know, last i heard 140 people who0 peop who were injured. >> reporter: before taking part in the ter:parade today mayor mayor gray told us he knows of nono threat to security here in the nation's capital.capil. but because it is the center of cent the federal government and and large crowds are gathered today toda extra law enforcement protectiont prot is in play. >> there's additional securitydditiona out here, some of which people won't even see. >> reporter: emotions arens are mixed when it comes to how how people are feeling about their thei safety in public.n some told us yesterday's terrorist attack during a public event hasn't changed the way way they feel.el. >> i'm not worried at all. all. >> others are concerned. conc katie wash burn from connecticut is a little nervous but somewhat some

comforted to see more policemore polic officers on the street. st >> because it's such a popularlar time, i'm worried. worr why wouldn't they target d.c. >> reporter: we caught upug with the kelly family who is visiting d.c. from their homeeir outside of boston. boston this year they decided to skip skip watching the marathon for a trip to d.c. as you can imagine reading the e headlines in front of the museum museum wasn't easy for them. >> i think i saw the thing up over there and read all the articles stuff from back home. ho it's ale little, it's concerning. >> reporter: well, back ck outlive here, the celebration isn is still taking place behind me will. the good news is that officials offi say there's been no problems as probl of yet. yet. this celebration continues until until 8:00 tonight. back to you.you. >> matt ackland, thank you. yo we want to go live to boston. we understand that members ofrs of the media are being briefedbeing bri right now. here is the special agent in agen charge with the fbi.

nylon bag or backpack. ba the bag would have been heavy because of the components comp believed to be in it. it at this point it's difficult to determine specific components used until we can eliminate other factors which may have been present in the environment. in fact, we won't know with some certainty until the laboratoryratory completes its final review. revie away from the scene yesterdayerday afternoon the gttf began its investigation. immediately after theinve bombing the fbi initiate add a command coand post. those assigned to the jttf and other agent associated with jttf and many others on their own including boston, police, more than 1,000 law enforcement enfo across many agencies have beenn assigned to this investigationation via the command post. they began canvassing sources reviewing government and public source databases ask conducting condu interviews with eye wonses eyewitnesses

toses determine who is responsible forresp this crime. we are doing this methodically,y, carefully yet with a sense of urgency. all across the nation and around the world the force of the united states is working hard to to locate those responsible.responsibl already the fbi has received more than 2000 tips as of noon ofoon today. many of which have already been reviewed analyzed and vetted. we will continue to work around the clock tirelessly side by side with our partners tors continue to investigate and actact on these leads. regarding who might be suspected of this events investigation is in in its infancy. as law enforcement, it's our'sour responsibility to thoroughlyhly review each and every piece of evidence. some of our activity you may some of it you won't. but rest assured we're working we'r hard to get the answers. at this time, there are no claims of responsibility, thebility, the range of suspects and motives remains wide open. importantlyim the person who did is someone's some

friend, neighbor co-worker or relative. we are asking anyone who mayho may have heard someone speak about i i marathon or the date of april 15th in anyway that indicated that he or she may she target the event to call us.. someone knows who did this. this cooperation from the community will play a crucial role in this investigation. we ask that businesses review and preserve video surveillance,su video and other business records reco in their original form. form we are asking the public to remain alert, and alert us of the following activity. tivity any individuals who expressed aa desire to target the marathon,mara suspicious interest inerest in researching how to create explosive devices the noise of of explosions in remote areas prior prior to yesterday which may have beenbeen used as tests by those responsible for these acts.acts. someone who appears to be be carrying an unusually heavy dark-colored baggiest around thear

time of the blast and in thethe vicinity of the blasts. at further substantive details that become available that areable that are appropriate for release together we will issue a press release or hold a presspres conference. tomorrow we will plan to old old hold another press conference inonfe the afternoon. thank you very much. i want to thank the public for for their tremendous support in this investigation. it's crucial to our ultimate success. i thank the people of the commonwealth of massachusettsal for this information that hasion that been provided to us. i want to thank the weston hotel ho for their services and allowingallong us to use their facility. we are grateful for that. thank you very much. mr. mayor. as we just heard from thed from special agent in charge there in boston. they're looking to the public pu for help in this investigation and boy have they thrown a lotth of resources at this investigation. i think, shawn he said about 1000 members of law

enforcement, multiple agencies all focused on this investigation, canvassing, going to data bases you name it. it. >> they said they're going to be processing the crime scene for ar a few days. da that area will remain shutdown so investigators can get in there and look for any tiny tiny piece -- or any piece ofof evidence they can find. fi let's listen to the mayor ofof boston right now. >> quickly because of the outof the out pouring of help we have set upset u an organization, one in boston, which is to collect money toney to help people who might need helpneed during this time. the website is one fund boston.org.ston.org. go to that website and donatedonate resources you have.ces you some of the foaxz have stepped folks of the folks have stepped up. john hancock, they have all comecome up in the boston foundation.fo they're all willing to help.lling to h that is how boston comes co

together like it has never come before.befo. this tragedy is not going to to stop boston. we are boston, we are one community and we will not let terror take us over. >> thank you. you. >> if you're hearing from mayor thomas menino of boston, there's a resiliency from the people of of boston and of course beyond. he is talking about ways that people can help some of theso victims and i'm sure a lot of families could use that help could use right now. th >> indeed, our coverage of the boston marathon bombings will will continue later on fox 5 news at at 5:00. the discovery that is is raising new concerns about the safety of d.c.'s fire department fleet. i'm obviously disgusted with his behavior. >> and a local landlord pleads pleads guilty to peeping tom charges we will show you what he used to us spy on his victims.

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there are new concerns about the d.c. fire department takingttaki risks with lad ter trucks. photos obtained by fox 55 showed the frayed steel cables cables to lift those ladders into the into t air. we are reporting trouble with the department.partment. he joins paul.ul. the truck with the frayeded cables has been responding toto emergency calls t failed a stress test yesterday morningy and it was immediately taken outy take of service one of two that have so far failed inspection sincesince

the beginning of the month. nth. >> this is a picture of thef the truck that according to the union failed inspection mondayinsp morning at the fire training academy. as soon as the inspector saw the the frayed cable on the aerial aerial ladder emile took it out immediately took it out of service.serv a discovery that raises raises questions about the safety off the entire fleet. >> absolutely. >> and unfortunately, i don'trt believe that is the only truckun truck that is running calls that probably won't pass an aerial ladder test. that is going to continue to place the members riding in jeopardy. >> reporter: a spokesman for the fire department said the the stress test had been done in 2012 because there were no reserve ladder trucks to take to their place. two days later fire officials told the city council the testss had not been done since 2012. >> if the cable slapped itped, would have cause a catastrophic

ladder failure. >> what do you mean it would have failed? >> it would have come crashing cras to the ground.he ground. >> the truck seven that is is normally assigned to the hill has been out of service, parkeded at fleet maintenance at ralph ralph street since earl -- half street since early april. ap the new one has issues as well.. these photos obtained by fox 5 fox show rust and corrosion on the on t base of the ladder, a conditiona cond that would lead to a failed fail stress test as well. well. last year, a ladder collapsed coll while fighting a blaze at a a repair shop, seriously injuringinjuring a firefighter. as of march 30th, the firefighter reported that the jew dishy committee had 16 had 16 trucks and one reserved bladder. >> fire chief nag confirmed that one

front line and two reserves had been given stress tests with only the front line passing.ssing. we again asked the chief an an interview today, and again he agai declined to answer any of our questions. >> paul wagner with the story thank you paul. firefighters rescued a a person from a burning home today. the fire broke out in north den woody street.woody two people got out of the housethe hou before the firefighter arrived. the third person was not able to able get out of the house on their thei own. >> the fire department rescued one person from the basement of thebasem the structure. th the two people who were out out prior to arrival were transported to washington washi hospital center due to the the nature of their injuries, thatju is reported to be burn and respiratory injuries.inju >> it took about 60 firefighters to get the flames under control. no word on what started it. . >> we're following breaking newseaking right now we just learned alearne short time ago that presidentesiden obama will be traveling to boston this thursday.thur

he will be traveling there to attend an interfaith for the bombing victims. we know that three people have died as a result of the bombings, more than 100 people peop have been hurt.n hu the president obama has branded the attacks a terrorist attack. at he vowed to the go to the ends of the earth to find which one it is. is president obama traveling tong boston on thursday to attend and a service for the victims of the the marathon bombing. coming up a landlord pleads guilty for spying on his tenant. when he used to record their most intimate moments.

frightening moments for a virginia family. skyfox over the scene at loudoun county. four men entered the house and held the family at gunpointnt while they robbed them.hem. the men took off tonight thee loudoun con sheriff's office iss office offering a cash reward for tips tips leading to an arrest. ar

a landlord who used smallall cameras to spy on his tenants in was in courtroom today.today. he plead guilty of two counts of peeping tom charges. he is accused of hiding small small cameras of several of his female tenants and then recording record intimate acts.intimate acts. one of the victims spoke out.t. >> i'm obviously disgusted with th his behavior, and a bit appalled, but i'm also think also t that he has got issues that went unnoticed that he didn't takedidn't take care of, you know, mental issues. issu >> the peeping tom is also facing three separate lawsuits and two female victims and one and of the boyfriends for invasion of privacy. the president obama calleda called the acts in boston a anus hayne heinous and cowardly acts.

we will look at what as the the search continues for who is responsible. everyone, people on thene, pe street, it was absolutely absolu amazing to see everyone come together. >> she is one of four argt lightsathleteswho witnessed the chaos chaos firsthand. a look at what they experienced as they tried to move forward. the grief was staggering. and now, more than one hundred days after the massacre at newtown, the us senate starts to act some democrats and republicans are

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we're following breaking news, pat sumrall the nfl nfl player turned broadcaster hashas died. he is known for his work with john madden.jo ma the popular duo worked togetherther for 21 years. they moved to after years as the lead team for cbs. he was 82 years old. old. we're continuing to covere theco latest developments in the boston bombings. here is what we know tonight to

three people are dead including incl 8-year-old martin richard and an 29-year-old chrystal campbell ca both from massachusetts. more than 171 people werepeople injured by the blast. bl the injuries include amputated ampu limbs, and the explosives werees wer contained in pressure cookerssure and hidden in black duffle bagsduff on the ground.on t one contained shared of metal and ball bearings and the other the one had nails. n they are investigating this as an acts of terrorism but no onem bu knows who is behind it. bill brennan is for the study of of terrorism and response to terrorism also known as stars. thank you for being with hereere tonight. >> thanks for having me. >> we with what we know so far fa who do you think we're dealing with. >> i don't know. the government hasn't provided information, it may be that they

don't know. kn or they're being methodical to me bring this case into the courtroom where they needeyneed evidence to stand up to the testst of thean law. la they're going to releaseing to rele information on their timetable ti but they're going to chase down every lead.y >> let's talk about security, secu boston, new york and d.c. andand other major cities on high alert with no group domestic or or international claimingaiming responsibility at least publicly, how long should thisng should high tenned security last? >> , that is based on a lot oflot information that we don't haveat we n't in the public domain. dom this is one of the most most significant terrorists attacks in the united states dating back to 1970. in terms of number of casualtiessualts this would rank number six.mber in terms of the number of casualties generated.ted. this is a violent event we'rewe'r talking about.lkin i cang understand why large larg summers that have been targeted taeted by terrorists in the past couldpa be cautious.ious. >> bill, are you surprised no surpris one has claimed responsibilityy

yet? >> not really. in fact, we did a little bit of of digging into our data set and for the terrorism incidents innts in the united states dating backback the last 42 years that we have have information about whether a a group did or did not claim responsibility, a very low percentage, about 25% of the5% of the cases, we actually hadctual had information where a group claimed responsibility. an d that's a low number. that's a conservative number. i would not say that is the the actual representation of theepre number of claims. cl there's several reasons for for that, but point here is that the majority of terrorists incidents in aren't claimed by an organization ultimately. ul >> interesting figure less than 25% actually claim responsibility. respon let mesi just get to this before th we run out of time, bill. earlier today shawn interviewedin someone about the role of social soci media. there's a photo of an unidentified person standing on person st thean rooftop of the boston building. i think we might have it.ink it'swe very close to where mig the

bombings happened, it hit twitter and now as we understandtand it, the fbi is taking a look at this photo. this social media certainly playing a pl role in the investigation. >> it certainly is. cert it's a game changer in terms of the post incident information in that investigators will have access to assuming that the the individual citizens are looking to their social media and video video images to determine whether ordetermin not they see someone suspiciouse someone on their s own devices and start and s calling the appropriate hot ap lines and take a look at what they see something campaign. this information forward it will be a game changer in termsin of the investigation.. >> to doubt social media medi definitely a game changer. changer. bill brennan, thank you forfor weighing in tonight.ighing in to we appreciate its. after completing the bostonboston marathon, they say the heinous crime will not stop their inspirational efforts. efforts. foss time beth has the theirr stories. >> reporter: between them

these 4 elite athletes have finished at least 100 marathons. here is howard county tatiana mcfadden winning the wheelchair division, monday waswas her first boston marathon. >> the weather was perfect. >> reporter: she and her university of illinoisil university powered through thee heartbreak thrill and the real heartbreak would come later. >> we just were hanging out andd had people sprinting down the escalators, and you can see theycan were freaking out. >> reporter: mcfadden, they were back at the hotel not farhote from the finish line when the the blast happened. tatiana had won the race, amanda had placed third, but suddenly su that didn't matter.tter. >> medical doctors and nurses nurs were tearing through the finishh line. everyone street it was absolutely amazing to seesee everyone come together.

>> it was a remarkable exchange. a marathon, but yet also the human experience in coming cong together to help.lp >> reporter: they rushed torush leave the city.leave the ci people that didn't know helpedd them. each of the 14 illinois racers ra had two wheel chairs plus luggage. lu >> strangers i was havingha people i didn't really know.ly >> reporter: text and tweets started flooding in. in. >> people like we're back towe're back t high school and stuff families from all over the place were were worried about you. your legs tucked in. >> reporter: mike and the others spent the night at tatiana's house at maryland.ma tonight they fly to england for this weekend's london marathon. they are not scared. >> it's life changing but but

always something positive alwayssiti live ave life to be careful with. going after everything that we love. >> in clarksville, maryland beth parker, fox 5 news. it is and it's so good to go see them. we have been seeing thehe coverage, strangers helpingg strangers in a time of need like this. it makes them feel good. good as we continue a local museum gives a glimpse at how this tragedy is being covered be around the world. world. the budget act is falling on the smithsonian. sm find out how the museum plans toans start closing some of its galleries.

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bombings include headlines. and the newspapers are on display outside of the museum in in northwest d.c. the smithsonian institution in during the squeeze of the budget cuts says it's forced to start closing galleries.gallerie the museum complex must reducere the security contract for the gallery attendance. result they will begin rolling gallery closures after may first. the smithsonian had to reducere the budget by $81 million due to the cuts imposed which done gres. the proposal includes money mone to build a station simulator for si the public school system. according to the washington examiner, it will be a part of the national organization,ganizion, center for save science education. it's expected to cost $1.5 million, and a million ofon, d a mi that was included in this year's budget and the remaining 500 grand in 2014. >> that sounds very exciting,

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send me an e-mail at laura's likes. >> i love it. >> thank you, i'm so glad. gl >> gary, what is going on withng o thatn forecast? good stuff, laura.> good s and you knowtu ffwhat this stuff inis stu in the weather department, a nice sunny, even feel day, right? right? >> i'm so happy because it'st's snowing? places. plac it's real cold again in the the central plains. we don't have to deal with that that even though as we get into the the weekend, it looks like we slip slip down into the 60s, a little little bit below normal instead of the above normal temperatures we te have had the last couple of days it's great out there this evening. temperatures are cooperating, it's 74 now here in the city,city that has been the warmest so far today, 75 for hagersburg. hagersbu and cumberland maryland, thend the temperature is 81 degrees. 81 so very, very spring-like. up to the north of us, it's not cold. but it's cool. cool there's a front right in here, he

just to the north of us. us. northern and central sections of of pennsylvania through jersey. jersey. see new york city is 60 degrees, big ming ham is 67. 67. the boundary will slip into our our section tomorrow.morrow. the forecast hinges on where wher that boundary is going to be be how far south does it get? get? that means in terms of thems of forecast high temperatures fores for tomorrow, it's going to betoe tricky right around that boundary okay? okay nice at 7:00, 72 some clouds at 9:00 59 and a spotty shower is is possible later on this eveningg, maybe from the 10:00 and then on on into maybe 1:00 or 2:00 in the morning.1: the00 reason is back to the west thewest of us we're seeing some showers showers and some thunderstorms comingcomi out of the midwest moving mo through indiana right now intointo ohio, and as we get a littleittle closer and zoom in on the radar you see the yellow box, this iss

actually a severe thunderstorm th watch box, so with all of this of to the west of us, and to thethe northwest of us, some of the guidance is suggesting that maybe a little of this will hold hold together late, late this eveningth and early, early tomorrowtomo morning coming across the mountains and potentially providing a couple of showerssh maybe even a dying thunderstorm up around the mason-dixon line. for tomorrow, here is the set up. we are going to bring the frontal system down into the area. it's probable league going to bebe laying across the metro tomorrow me afternoon and tomorrow evening,ev again north of the boundary temperatures will probably onlypr be iobn the upper 60s south of soh of the boundaries, temperatures will be inunda the upper 70s 70s, close to 80 degrees, and then right here through the metro area, i think we're right around around 74 75 degrees, something like that, there will be a fewfew showers late in the day tomorrow, and primarily to the south, and the warmer and moremore moist air, there could be a few thunderstorms popping up ass well.

61 overnight tonight in town. to upper 50s in the suburb, we we will stay dry for most of us, there could be an isolated shower with the dyingthe ying thunderstorms. clouds will start today,l start to tomorrow, it's the day part part forecast mostly cloudy at noon, 72 and by late in the ache, afternoon temperatures lower to mid-70s mi depending on which side of the boundary you're living on.ng o south of the boundary warmer, with a few showers in the afternoon the best chance forhance rain and thunderstorms will bewill be friday into friday night hopefully it gets out of here by sunday, by saturday morning andg and the weekend will be mostly sunny and temperatures in the lower to mid-60s. >> remember last weekend? >> i do. >> i >> that is what i think this weekend is going to shape upup pretty much.uch. >> a pretty good weekend.eekend. >> a pretty good weekend seed,see you are listening. li >> yes, we are. thank you,>> gary. gary let's take a look at what is wha coming up on at 6:00. >> reporter: dramatic newc new images from the boston marathon bombings. local participants share their

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it's been six years that a gunman opened fire at the virginia tech campus killing 3232 people. dozens of people attended a somber ceremony at the virginia capital building. a moment of silence was observed at 9:33 the exact time the the massacre began. it was followed bit ringing for for woulds for each victim. victim >> still remember the feeling, that pit in your stomach that that pails in comparison to the the feelings of family and those who th

lost their lives.heir we don't ever want to forget that. >> the gunman later killed himself.himself. five firefighters held hostage are speaking about their life and death ordeal. members responded to a routine medical call. cal once they arrived the suspect held them at gunpoint. the man was killed during a a shootout with police.lice. none the firefighters were hurt. they describe the man as being delusional and angry.angry. >> my personal opinion is heon is wanted to board the house up, up kill us, set the house on fire fire shoot himself and then let the th fire come in and put the fire out. he was wanting so bad to see itto s on t.v. >> police say the man had major family and financial problems.problems. among his demands, he wanted police to turn on his electric cable and cell phone.

thanks for joining us tonight at 5:00. the news edge at 6:00 starts right now. there's a bomb. >> this was a heinous and an cowardly act. anytime bombs are used to target civilians it's an act of terror. >> reporter: president obama oba vows to find who is behind thed e deadly bomb attacks in boston.bost tonight the city is rattled att country on alert after the annual marathon turned into into horror when two bombs went off. of three people are dead, including 8-year-old martin richard. his sister and mother were on the sidelines watching their dad, and the mother and sister survived. the sister lost a leg in the